The Bunker

I love this place! I have been going here for about the past 4 years. It’s casual, low key, and a great way to keep your game in tune over the winter. On top of playing almost any course in the world you can also get a frozen pizza and a pitcher of beer. Now I dare you to try and find a better combo than friends, pizza, beer, and golf.

So first things first: I’m no golfer. The BF tried to teach me how to golf a couple Summers ago, but I swear each time I’m out on a course I get worse and worse picking up one bad habit after another…
Even so, the BF enjoys golf, and I enjoy playing with him. I thought trying a place like The Bunker with golf simulators might be fun, and a welcome change from the long rounds spent waiting for me to practically walk my ball to the hole!
I had never heard of The Bunker until I saw a deal on Crowd Cut this Winter for 50% off. So, I figured it might be something cool to do when we were suffering from the winter blues and wanting to spend some quality time with each other. The deal was a round of 18 holes, a pitcher of beer, and a pizza for two for $ 45. I thought it seemed like a pretty good deal… that was until I heard the words «frozen pizza».
That’s right, ladies and gents… they serve frozen pizza. We scheduled a 6:30pm tee time for a rainy Friday night a couple weeks ago, and when we got there we had the place completely to ourselves! I guess I didn’t really know what to expect, but a cold, dark, unoccupied space wasn’t it. A few other twosomes showed up before the night was over, but it was still really dead around there. The guy that was running the place was friendly and helpful – the one bright spot in an otherwise dreary experience. He set up the simulator for us, brought us our pitcher of beer, and then asked us what kind of pizza we wanted – that was when the «frozen» bomb was dropped.
We had a little trouble figuring out how to putt, so we asked for his assistance a short while later and he set the simulator to practice mode so he could demonstrate. After that, I was well on my way to sucking on a virtual golf course as well as the real variety – to be fair, the courses are apparently pretty tough on everyone… but that doesn’t mean I suck any less!
The pizza was ok – certainly not what I was originally expecting, and probably not even as good as your average Tombstone. We pounded back our Mich Goldens and powered our way through the 18 holes like champs. If they’d had a little better options for food and/​or beer, we likely would’ve ordered something else and enjoyed ourselves a little more. But quite frankly, as much fun as I have spending an evening with my BF, we were looking forward to the end of the round!
Bottom line: we won’t be visiting The Bunker again unless their menu or my game improves significantly!